A season to forget. By far our worst. We only won 4 games and 3 of those were in a 20-20 competition against very moderate opposition. In the normal format of 35 or 40 over games, we only had 1 victory. Teams we play have improved though, as I've said before. They are going to beat us more often than we beat them. Most of our defeats were by big margins as we were usually short of bowlers. Hassan missed the majority of games with injury and Abbas and Sami didn't play that many games either. Abbas wanted to bat higher - at least on occasions - but how do you keep everyone in a team happy? Especially this team.! We don't know if Abbas will play again, or Sami for that matter. Only two of our bowlers, Todorow and Sami, took over 10 wickets. Qasim, a new acquisition, looked a fairly decent bowler with good pace and bounce but he joined us quite late in the season. Ollie Amos, another newcomer, looked promising as a batsman but was not committed and it's highly unlikely we'll see him again. He probably had nothing better to do at the time! Bilal, who only played in one 20-20 game for us, was a very impressive bowler but he was upset when the opposition complained about his action. It looked OK to me.
In the batting, once again Mark Bradshaw was really solid and Riaz continues to improve. Prasanth scored a brilliant 87 in our last match but he too missed a lot of games through injury. Availability was a big problem for us last season, with injuries, people working, holidays and other reasons. The worst blow was, of course, Hassan's absence. Another problem was that some players were below their best.
Let's hope it's not the same story for Nomads next season. JC.
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